More summer fun!

It's only Wednesday and our week has been non-stop as usual.

Monday we went to a doctor's appointment for Zach in St. Louis and then went to the zoo. We had a great day. The favorite animals of the day were the stingrays at Stingray Cove and the favorite activity of the day was anywhere that they could get wet!

Here are some pictures of them in the pop-up fountain at the Children's Zoo.

On Tuesday, Kailtyn had gymnastics and I was going to take the twins to Summer Playground until I went out to the car and saw the ominous clouds in the sky! Instead we took a trip to the Dollar Tree to get some last minute supplies for Zoe for Girl Scout camp next week. In the afternoon we headed to the library to return some books and check out some new ones. Finally, in the evening, we headed to violin lessons and Zach and I went to Hobby Lobby to get some materials so I could make the girls some cute tutus.

Here is the resulting project:

They were super easy and I finished both in about an hour and a half. If anyone wants me to make them one for their little princesses - let me know!

Then today, on Wednesday, we went to a friend's house for play group and played with our little friends and swam in their pool. Then we went bowling this afternoon with our Brownie and Daisy Girl Scouts. Zach got to go out for ice cream with his violin teacher for practicing 100 days in a row. And to it all for today, Michael is taking the kids out to Sheridan and the twins have swimming lessons until 6:00.

Tomorrow I have a teacher in-service all day so daddy will get to enjoy his children without me!

The busy life of the Drew Crew continues...

Father's Day

Okay, I'm trying this blog thing out finally.

Today is Father's Days and I am so blessed to have the best husband and father for my children. As many of you know, we struggled with having children and were finally blessed with the twins in 2003. My pregnancy was horrible. Nausea, pre-term labor, bed rest, you name it. Michael was there for me every minute. He made the drive to St. Louis to the doctor's office with me 32 times. He set up everything in the bedroom for me so I wouldn't be bored during bedrest. He would make me breakfast, go to work, come home and make lunch, go to work, and come home and make dinner and spend the evening with me in the bedroom watching TV or just talking. I never had to worry about any! We made it to 36 weeks and they were both born healthy!

They came home and as you can imagine having twin newborns is not easy. He again took over everything and I had nothing to worry about except for feeding the babies. As they grew and he could do more, we took turns at night getting up with them and feeding them. I don't know how we made it through the first six months but I know we did it together. We also had to make countless more trips to St. Louis because Zach was born with a club foot.

The twins grew older and along came Kaitlyn. Again, Michael was a huge help. We now had 2 year old twins and I was pregnant with the same problems as the first time. I made it through with no bedrest this time and only meds to stop labor and we made it to 38 weeks. He was there for me again every step of the way.

He is an awesome father and husband and I don't know what I would do without him.

Here's to Michael, my best friend, husband, daddy to my children! We love you! Happy Father's Day!